POWELL MONUMENT IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 5 METRES NORTH OF NORTH WEST CORNER OF TOWER, CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1083596
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1985
List Entry Name:: POWELL MONUMENT IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 5 METRES NORTH OF NORTH WEST CORNER OF TOWER, CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL
Statutory Address:: POWELL MONUMENT IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 5 METRES NORTH OF NORTH WEST CORNER OF TOWER, CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL

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Date:: 2002-09-24
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1083596
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1985
List Entry Name:: POWELL MONUMENT IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 5 METRES NORTH OF NORTH WEST CORNER OF TOWER, CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL
Statutory Address 1:: POWELL MONUMENT IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 5 METRES NORTH OF NORTH WEST CORNER OF TOWER, CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: POWELL MONUMENT IN CHURCHYARD, ABOUT 5 METRES NORTH OF NORTH WEST CORNER OF TOWER, CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Forest of Dean (District Authority)
Parish:: Westbury-on-Severn
National Grid Reference:: SO 71711 13928

Details

SO 71 SW WESTBURY-ON-SEVERN WESTBURY VILLAGE

11/222 Powell monument in churchyard, about 5m north of north-west corner of tower, Church of St. Peter and St. Paul

GV II

Chest tomb: Esther Powell, died 1771. Stone. Thick, flat lid with simply-moulded edge. Quarter square gadrooned balusters at corners. South face main central panel framed by tall rectangle at each end. Head with wings at top of centre: pendant rings at top corners, with flowers and scrolls down sides and returning across bottom. Plain centre for inscription curved back at edges to give relief to carving. End panels pendant rings at top, with various flowers below. North face badly weathered. Ends serpent of eternity surrounding an hour glass, fronds above, feathers to side and scrolls below. A good example of this type, well preserved apart from north face.

Listing NGR: SO7171113928

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Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.